which blew out windows in the city center for us right now i'm thinking about the council my head and of course it's horrible nice things happen you don't really know what's going on but you can assume there's been a bomb because of the serious effects. it's being linked with the same man who's thought to be a right wing extremist with anti muslim views in on the seventeenth of july he's still to have posted a twitter feed where he has said that one person with a belief is equal to the force of a hundred thousand who have only interests so he thought of posted radical tweets leading up to this attack he's now been charged with both the bombing in the city center here in oslo and the youth come just outside he was a fundamentalist he's a fundamentalist christian and he says multiculturalism has always failed us in his blog which has been found calls himself a nationalist he's also registered a gun club and around two years ago opened a farm called geo farm which gave him access to industrial fertilizer which is

often used by terrorists for bombings like this one so it seems that it's an idea that he's been planning for a long time initially a group including helpers of the global jihad came out and said that they took responsibility for the forming but then they retracted that of course norway is is participating in the libyan and afghanistan war efforts as part of nato and the just last winter there were dozens of islamic militants arrested throughout western europe in connection with with planned bombings police have told people to stay out of the city center to avoid using mobile phones the exits to the borders of norway which shots immediately after the blast and roads leading into and trains leading into the capital rules so hold to it now we've we've heard that soldiers are on the streets with machine guns police also and it's being called the worst attack since world war two perhaps the worst shooting spree in history. you're right there well

i mean. an advisor of the department for security and conflict management at the norwegian institute of international affairs says the national divisions in the country's political climate could be linked to the brutal scenes it has witnessed. this coordinated sort of fly and sequence of events by this person it's a kind of sort of freak planned accident or happening that it's difficult to really prepare yourself for i mean it's it's a sonority voice is difficult to foresee there are many options of course there are limited capabilities of these special forces in norway and the region police and they took them fine but i'm not sure if they're the reason why he were able to kill some money out this small island i mean this is it's an island i mean lots of young people he got on the island with a police uniform the police got there relatively quickly i mean given the fact that

it's a sixty kilometers from oslo but you know it's a very special very well planned very determined man that it's very difficult to guard against this you know why the sense that it is there anything in the current norwegian political climate that could be linked to these brutal scenes that the country has witnessed. well it is something we have an increasingly. intense and heated debate about immigration. about both immigration is doing to no beach culture or multiculturalists them is really not to go forward marginalized in a region so feel their voices are not being heard in the political establishment. and the reaching people have never been consulted democratically about whether a bump immigration on or not and that the political establishment is a sort of of the elite that lives in areas which are to put it out they all white and that it's lower class to reach and so who feel that the immigrants are sort of

getting into the territories removing them folded from the drugs lowering their salaries etc and there are no avail lovelle playing the democratic rules i guess dot so far seems to be the motivation of this person as well. that was my colleague carrie johnson there speaking with the security analyst. when always our security force was prepared to thwart a terror attack but still fail to prevent the massacre that's the view of danish m.e.p. morton messerschmitt who raised doubts over the scandinavian security forces many scandinavians were of the belief that we are police our intelligence service really had the facilities and the measures in order to prevent this from happening we have in numerous cases we have prevented attacks from terrorist groups islamist groups earlier on of course it's much more difficult to prohibit

individual lunatics from doing. it if we are as we have seen yesterday but there's of course once again the question is whether the police whether the intelligence service has the facilities and measures that are adequate to the situation that we are living in today u.s. based i was correspondent keith holland snow believes we may never learn what really happened on the island but there was an ample reason for cells to target norway. it's not unusual for a government or an organization to which works with the media systems to control information the way that norway norwegian media does or the norwegian government does to hide the facts of something like this until they've decided that they want to tell the truth about what really happened in some cases the public will never learn the truth about what really happened but obviously to keep the public from becoming too frightened they want to keep the numbers down and have a lot of parents wondering if their children have been killed and so there's

a lot of reasons why governments control this kind of information in norway has a huge role in the missions the isis forces in afghanistan lebanon somalia uganda norway has committed to planes to the bombing in libya and they were previously involved in iraq and it's that that wouldn't be surprising either but. again back to the culture of who are norway's the fourteenth largest arms importer in in the world the highest military expenditures per capita in all of the european countries and you know it's it makes a lot of sense that this could be coming back on norway just like you know the chickens come home to roost i mean time doctor well mccown's from the sun to the naval analysis terrorist groups are trying to recruit people of european backgrounds because they would raise suspicion. the statement came out around ten thirty this morning u.s. time. no one challenged it for several hours but then by the afternoon the same

person who had posted the claim posted a retraction and apparently it seems that the forum administrators where he posted the claim had gotten angry for him attributing it to this group helpers of the global jihad so he had to take down the statement post a retraction the recruitment of people in europe who are not of arab or south asian background who can blend in with the majority population they've been looking for for for these type of folks for a long time because they fly below the surveillance radar. observe nature and discover its beauty. communicate with the wild and. test yourself and become free. see what nature can give you.

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welcome back here with live from the heart of the russian capital now the latest u.s. government efforts to raise the country's mammoth fourteen point three trillion dollars debt ceiling have collapsed the republican opposition leader walked out of negotiations with president obama unless the government can agree to raise the debt limit by august second the country will be unable to pay its bills and will have to declare default and the effects already being felt the u.s.

federal aviation authority which oversees all civil flights begins to shut down but critics say that it's unlikely either side will offer a solution be it more taxes all spending cuts new york resident onto the streets off the big public opinion. would you be willing to pay more in taxes to save your government from bankruptcy this week let's talk about that. definitely wouldn't. have any spending. spending. so do you trust your government to spend it correctly i don't trust any of the country a little bit how much is a little but. few percentage points more and that's about it that's about it since fifty percent of the american public does not pay a nickel i would have

a problem i believe everybody even if it's a dollar fifty everybody should be in this shared sacrifice how much work if you know if i'm working hard and i make you my. share you know why do i want to get taken away from me when people who you know don't. you know you just spend a lot more money in taxes so that more people have my services. you have to pay for people who aren't working as hard as you. yeah. yeah ok with that. yeah i think everybody should have it ok so i think it's ok because. you know you think people who want to work. like in the states government they spend all the money and. so i was.

there you don't need. no matter how you feel about taxes the bottom line is you probably always going to have to pay them but it's up to your government to use those funds well. the e.u. has announced a new a one hundred sixty billion euro bailout for greece even as athens credit rating drops into the dreaded default category european leaders however made clear their results to pull the e.u. out of a spiral of debt at any cost but critics want agreeing that the cash injection was necessary for now maintain that it's not nearly enough to get the euro back on its feet. president sarkozy has been saying in brussels you know greece is a special case it's received this special support from the europeans and other countries won't receive that but of course it's do we believe that i'm not sure

that we do because it's inconceivable that the europeans wouldn't step in very and it's also i think inconceivable that even the resources now available to the financial stability fund the sort of nascent european monetary fund i think they wouldn't really be sufficient in the a if it was a sort of battle between the bond markets and the italian government so without wanting to paint nightmare scenarios i don't think you know we're out of the woods yet. russia hasn't escaped the european economic slump with high inflation recorded this year but the rise has mainly affected corrupt officials the average cost of a bribe skyrocketing up to ten thousand u.s. dollars. also the skies are. now after police arrested a man suspected of blinding pilots with a powerful laser gun you can find all these stories along with other top news and

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now to talk about some of today's biggest political story and it's the story behind the story are slick whoa the editorial mission driving the mainstream news cycle and i just kind of sat back i was like wow this is it this is the speech played by the rules instructions coming straight from the top he said i was just in washington and people in washington tell me that they're concerned about your tone recently departed m.-s. n.b.c.

anchor jank ugur describes the talking to he alleges came from the head of the cable news network the talking to that drove him to leave the station he said i love to be an outsider outsiders are cool but we're not we're insiders. we are those former insiders and analysts we interviewed say it's this way of thinking in the mainstream t.v. media that leads to a twenty four hour news cycle filled largely with a c n n a the woman accused of killing her two year old little girl you would know if the this is your underpass we now learn maria demanded he move al has been wowing us with her style coverage that an m.s.m. defector says it's cost stations their literate audience and credibility a lot of mainstream television news in particular is in the gutter they're just wasting your time with casey anthony stories with anthony weiner's wiener it's become a national joke a national joke that protects ad revenue and political currency unlike more hard

hitting stories they would be stories that offend big corporations and big political power and that's why they're not covered it could explain why more reporters haven't covered for example a secret prison in somalia run by the cia journalist jeremy scahill exposed its secrets and says several other american reporters know about it too instead this was the response to his story in the case of c.n.n. didn't even mention my report and just basically reprinted a press release from the cia saying that you know they were just assisting the somali government it could explain why networks aren't redoubling their efforts to cover hard hitting stories instead fresh off the successful ratings of the casey anthony trial you have a network like a.b.c. hiring former kidnapping victim elizabeth smart to cover missing children stories i mean they basically came out and said we need to do more missing children or missing people stories and so that's what they're going to do and that is going to be a cost to other stories taking away from stories that affect people on

a greater scale from jobs to inequality poverty wars and police brutality. the direction seems to be heading ever further in the direction of sensational and tabloid. which if rupert murdoch's news corps scandal is any indication could backfire ultimately that if you're going to lose ratings you're going to lose viewers and you know ultimately you may be you may find yourself under investigation networks that pledge to lean forward or claim to be fair and balanced or they call themselves the most trusted name in news c defectors leaving to find an independent outlet if they want to try to live up to those mottos lauren lyster our washington d.c. . motivation behind it sensationalistic rather than fact based journalism maybe the age old pursuit for higher profits that's according to. co-host of the young news show. the overall goal for the media right now is to profit i mean they're

constantly worried about ratings why are they worried about ratings because in the advertising department or in the sales department those ratings need to be presented to advertisers and if you are cut they think that if you cover stories that are important stories on libya stories on the economy that americans are going to buy it they want the sensationalism they're going to focus on the sensationalism there is an audience out there for it but it's discouraging because people are getting informed on the issues that are that are important to vet the issues that actually affect them on a daily basis and if they think that's going to bring in the money in the ratings then that's what they're going to cover and i think that that's discouraging and i think they're wrong i think they're wrong on that point. get some other international news stories in brief for you this hour. militants in somalia they are still banning the most foreign aid agencies from working in the famine struck country the militants deny u.n. reports that somalia is in a state of disaster calling the statements propaganda

a severe drought has struck the region rendering millions in dire need of food and water the u.n. estimates tens of thousands have already died from shortages. foreign ministers from north and south korea have broken the three year suspension of high level bilateral meetings the unofficial talks took place on interviews in an island of bali a venue for the eighteenth regional form of the association of southeast asian nations the meeting was thought to be a positive step to possible future negotiations on the issue of nuclear weapons in the korean peninsula north korea quit the original talks back in two thousand and seven. carried out fresh bombing runs on the libyan capital the. headquarters the whereabouts. remains known on friday a crowd rallied in tripoli in support of the libya has been ravaged by civil war since february with the nato led coalition beginning airstrikes back in march

military contributing says there's a growing credibility gap within the alliance over the intervention. there is a lot of talkin about. the u.s. policy or the lack of faith regarding pakistan and afghanistan no less has been said about the nato operation or actually aerial intervention and bombing in libya take a close a look at how the nato aerial bombing in libya is related to american tribes in afghanistan and pakistan on a technical basis yes then nato intervention and indiscriminate bombing and libya could be both the united states and nato operation but technicalities aside it is not just a turn and a half wars for the united states in reality if not on the ground at least in the air over a levy if the bombing is one hundred percent the nato operation timing of

nato operation against libya demonstrated not on the of the lack of trust between the united states and pakistan and afghan leadership it is also indicative of a huge credibility gap between the genuine united states of america and its here opinion nato partners. you with a lot from moscow it's good to have you with us on the path of a quick summary of the headlines coming your way in just a moment. the

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